Pride example sentences

It was obvious from his gait that he had not consented to go and chop wood because he was hungry and wanted work, but simply from pride and shame and because he had been trapped by his own words.Open squares, winding lanes, quiet cul-desacs and water channels were the pride of Delhi's residents.Through glorified accounts of the past, these novels helped in creating a sense of national pride among their readers.The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice states: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.